Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
The Folly of the World
The Folly of the World | Jesse Bullington
4 posts | 8 read | 2 to read
On a stormy night in 1421, the North Sea delivers a devastating blow to Holland: the Saint Elizabeth Flood, a deluge of biblical proportions that drowns hundreds of towns, thousands of people, and forever alters the geography of the Low Countries. Where the factions of the noble Hooks and the merchant Cods waged a literal class war but weeks before, there is now only a nigh-endless expanse of grey water, a desolate inland sea with moldering church spires jutting up like sunken tombstones. For a land already beleaguered by generations of civil war, a worse disaster could scarce be imagined. Yet even disaster can be profitable, for the right sort of individual, and into this flooded realm sail three conspirators: a deranged thug at the edge of madness, a ruthless conman on the cusp of fortune, and a half-feral girl balanced between them. With The Folly of the World, Jesse Bullington has woven an extraordinary new tale of the depraved and the desperate.
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
review
kozy_kel
The Folly of the World | Jesse Bullington
post image
Pickpick

👓The Folly of the World || Jesse Bullington

A gloomy read set in a flooded Holland, where whole towns are now underwater. Full terrible people doing terrible things, this book packs nice plot twists and leaves certain questions left unanswered (though we can certainly give a good guess as to what those answers might be). If you don‘t mind things lying more on the graphic side, it may be a good book to pick up.

3.75/5

review
Squidapus
The Folly of the World | Jesse Bullington
post image
Pickpick

Like all Bullington novels, this is a journey with a bunch of awful people where everything terrible happens to everyone all the time. Squidapus puts this between Enterprise of Death (like) and Brothers Grossbart (hate) on the scale of how likable everyone is. A bastard fallen noble, his lover a mentally deranged murderer and the scrawny diving girl they hire to get rich. Nothing goes the way you expect, truly surprising for reader and characters.

TobeyTheScavengerMonk Yeah, Brothers Grossbart just wore me out. 5y
11 likes1 comment